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Scientists detect fourth gravitational wave from black hole collision 1.8 billion light-years away - India TV 13-Aug-2021

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Scientists detect fourth gravitational wave from black hole collision 1.8 billion light-years away - India TV Scientists announced on Wednesday that they have detected a fourth gravitational wave signal coming from the merger of two black holes More...

Today's Google Doodle Is Late Nobel Peace Prize Winner Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, on What Would Be His 107th - Billboard 13-Aug-2021

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Today's Google Doodle Is Late Nobel Peace Prize Winner Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, on What Would Be His 107th - Billboard Today's (Oct. 19) Google Doodle honors Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, the late Nobel Peace Prize winner who founded the Chandrasekhar Limit that determines the maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star, on what would be his 107th birthday. More...

European spacecraft beams back picture from double date with Venus - India Today 13-Aug-2021

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European spacecraft beams back picture from double date with Venus - India Today The image was taken by the Mercury Transfer Module’s Monitoring Camera 3, which captured a black-and-white snapshot in 1024 x 1024 pixel resolution. More...

The dots were sent into space for study by Thomas Pesquet - Awani Review 13-Aug-2021

The dots were sent into space for study by Thomas Pesquet - Awani Review On Tuesday, these single-celled organisms took off for the International Space Station. The French astronaut will conduct his zero-gravity experiment More...

Watch NASA fire up its SLS rocket engines to test far-out mission technologies (video) - Space.com 13-Aug-2021

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Watch NASA fire up its SLS rocket engines to test far-out mission technologies (video) - Space.com While NASA has yet to launch an Artemis mission to the moon, the agency is already doing engine testing for far-future missions. More...

Intuitive Machines Leverages SpaceX for Lunar Launch - Space Bollyinside - BollyInside 13-Aug-2021

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Intuitive Machines Leverages SpaceX for Lunar Launch - Space Bollyinside - BollyInside SpaceX provided Falcon 9 launch vehicles for Intutive Machines’ two previous lunar missions. The new project, which was announced Aug. 10, is expected in More...

'Undescribed species' of crimson red jellyfish spotted by explorers, watch video - Republic World 13-Aug-2021

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'Undescribed species' of crimson red jellyfish spotted by explorers, watch video - Republic World The ‘previously undiscovered’ jellyfish was found by researchers aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) explorer ship, Okeanos. More...

Singapore designs smart fabric as medical support for elderly - BSA bureau 13-Aug-2021

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Singapore designs smart fabric as medical support for elderly - BSA bureau A chain mail fabric that can stiffen on demand More...

ISS astronauts to experiment on 'the Blob' that grows without dividing - Firstpost 13-Aug-2021

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ISS astronauts to experiment on 'the Blob' that grows without dividing - Firstpost Despite having no mouth, legs or brain, the yellowish mould eats, grows, moves — albeit very slowly — and has amazing learning abilities. More...

Cute Experiment Reveals How Your Cat Probably Wants Its Meals Served - ScienceAlert 13-Aug-2021

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Cute Experiment Reveals How Your Cat Probably Wants Its Meals Served - ScienceAlert Unlike numerous other animals, cats show a strange unwillingness to work for their food. More...

Know All About 'Ambergris', Sperm Whale Vomit That Costs Rs 1 Crore for a Kg - News18 13-Aug-2021

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Know All About 'Ambergris', Sperm Whale Vomit That Costs Rs 1 Crore for a Kg - News18 The Bengaluru City Crime Branch police recently held 5 persons who were reportedly trying to smuggle Ambergris or sperm whale vomit, said to be priced around Rs 80 crore. More...

Nature's ultimate survivors: Sharks lived through extinction event that killed dinosaurs on Earth - India Today 13-Aug-2021

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Nature's ultimate survivors: Sharks lived through extinction event that killed dinosaurs on Earth - India Today The mass extinction event during the end of the Cretaceous period, that disrupted marine ecosystems did not have a similar effect on shark species. More...

Space ship delivers pizza to Int'l Space Station (Video) - Social News XYZ 13-Aug-2021

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Space ship delivers pizza to Int'l Space Station (Video) - Social News XYZ Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo ship reached the International Space Station on Thursday with a pizza kit and cheese smorgasbord for the seven station astronauts along with other scientific and culinary supplies. (Aug. 12) Subscribe for... - Social News XYZ More...

Video: Keeping an eye on ocean plastic pollution from space - Phys.org 13-Aug-2021

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Video: Keeping an eye on ocean plastic pollution from space - Phys.org Meet bag, bottle and straw, three bits of plastic left on the beach. More...

Science News Roundup: Indonesian village turns unwanted trash into COVID helper; Boeing assessing launch dates in August for Starliner space capsule and more - Devdiscourse 13-Aug-2021

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Science News Roundup: Indonesian village turns unwanted trash into COVID helper; Boeing assessing launch dates in August for Starliner space capsule and more - Devdiscourse Following is a summary of current science news briefs. Indonesian village turns unwanted trash into COVID helper A homemade robot designed by Indonesian villagers and scientists for fun has found a new use during the pandemic - bringing food, and hopefully … More...

Haunting images of Venus snapped during BepiColombo's flyby shows the Earth's evil twin glowing - Daily Mail 13-Aug-2021

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Haunting images of Venus snapped during BepiColombo's flyby shows the Earth's evil twin glowing - Daily Mail BepiColombo spacecraft snapped 86 haunting images of Venus during its close encounter of the hellish world on Tuesday. ESA released the gallery Thursday that shows Venus in a stunning glow. More...

Fossils: Scientists unearth TWO new giant dinosaur species that lived in China 130 million years ago - Daily Mail 13-Aug-2021

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Fossils: Scientists unearth TWO new giant dinosaur species that lived in China 130 million years ago - Daily Mail Unearthed near Hami, Xinjiang, the sauropods - 'Hamititan' and 'Silutitan' - are between 56 and 66ft long and among the first vertebrates from the region, Chinese Academy of Science experts said. More...

Asteroid Bennu, as big as the Empire State Building in New York, could hit Earth - Details inside - DNA India 13-Aug-2021

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Asteroid Bennu, as big as the Empire State Building in New York, could hit Earth - Details inside - DNA India Scientists have also reassured that though the event will not lead to extinction, the devastation it brings could be colossal. More...

Arctic woolly mammoth covered an area twice the diameter of the Earth in its lifetime - Daily Mail 13-Aug-2021

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Arctic woolly mammoth covered an area twice the diameter of the Earth in its lifetime - Daily Mail Scanning the six foot tusk of a mammoth that died aged 28 in what is now Alaska, exerts from the University of Alaska in Fairbanks retraced its astonishing life. More...

Shape-shifting whalefish is spotted swimming 6,600 feet below surface near California - Daily Mail 13-Aug-2021

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Shape-shifting whalefish is spotted swimming 6,600 feet below surface near California - Daily Mail The female whalefish is only one of 18 spotted by  the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in 34 years of and is famed for its different body transformations throughout life. More...

Chandrayaan-2 detects presence of water molecules on moon - Daily Excelsior 13-Aug-2021

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Chandrayaan-2 detects presence of water molecules on moon - Daily Excelsior NEW DELHI, Aug 12: Chandrayaan-2, ISRO's second lunar mission, has detected the presence of water molecules on the moon, data obtained from the mission More...

Black holes emit 'burps' when they're eating gas and stars, directly correlated to their size - Daily Mail 13-Aug-2021

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Black holes emit 'burps' when they're eating gas and stars, directly correlated to their size - Daily Mail Supermassive black holes emit flickers of light when consuming matter, with the change in brightness directly correlated to size, scientists have said in a newly published study. More...

Astronauts on the space station held their own Olympics, complete with synchronized air swimming - watch the v - Business Insider India 13-Aug-2021

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Astronauts on the space station held their own Olympics, complete with synchronized air swimming - watch the v - Business Insider India Astronauts on the International Space Station held the first Space Olympics last week.Microgravity allowed the astronauts to show off flips, twists, handstands, More...

A Group of Hikers Trekked to See the Perseid Meteor Shower. The Shooting Star Spectacle ... - Latest Tweet - LatestLY 13-Aug-2021

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A Group of Hikers Trekked to See the Perseid Meteor Shower. The Shooting Star Spectacle ... - Latest Tweet - LatestLY The latest Tweet by Reuters states, 'A group of hikers trekked to see the Perseid meteor shower. The shooting star spectacle happens every August when the Earth passes through a stream of space debris left by the Swift-Tuttle comet' More...

Huge ring around a black hole - Floridanewstimes.com 13-Aug-2021

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Huge ring around a black hole - Floridanewstimes.com Credit: X-ray: NASA / CXC / U.Wisc-Madison / S.Heinz et al.; Optics / IR: PanSTARRS This image features a magnificent set of rings around a black hole, captured using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory More...

Hikers in Bosnia Trekked to See the Perseid Meteor Shower. The Meteor Shower is Best ... - Latest Tweet by - LatestLY 13-Aug-2021

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Hikers in Bosnia Trekked to See the Perseid Meteor Shower. The Meteor Shower is Best ... - Latest Tweet by - LatestLY The latest Tweet by Reuters states, 'Hikers in Bosnia trekked to see the Perseid meteor shower. The meteor shower is best viewed in the northern hemisphere in isolated areas where there is low light pollution' More...

NASA blames Mars rover sampling fiasco on bad, powdery rock - CGTN 13-Aug-2021

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NASA blames Mars rover sampling fiasco on bad, powdery rock - CGTN The Perseverance rover came up empty after attempting to collect its first core sample on Mars for eventual return to Earth. NASA is blaming unusually soft rock for that. More...